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| Re: What is Charter's coverage area? Yep.
TWC would pick up OH, WI and or MN too. That would cover this area. Especially in Ohio they're the largest provider of TV.
Comcast could pick up MI to complete that. BrightHouse also could pick up MI to pull in more since they're in Upper MI. | |
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join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | Re: What is Charter's coverage area? They have sold off a number of areas in the last couple of years. There was a bright-something company that they sold a few areas to earlier this year. | |
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join:2003-05-28
Earth
kudos:1 | Re: What is Charter's coverage area? This was very recently that they sold those systems.
It may have been Brighthouse you may be refering to. | |
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| | |  PaulgDisplaced YooperPremium
join:2004-03-15
Neenah, WI
kudos:1 | Where's brighthouse at in the UP?
I know they have some markets in the alpena area, but i didnt know they were this far north. | |
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| | | | | | Re: What is Charter's coverage area? i didnt mean in the way UP i mean Northern Mi. they have service in A2 and Detroit. | |
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| |  antdudeA Ninja AntPremium,VIP
join:2001-03-25
kudos:2
·RoadRunner Cable
| said by CCNnorthcali:Wow, I had no idea they were in California. It has been there for a while for years. I remember them in late 90s and used to work near one of its local offices. | |
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| mobbo
join:2005-04-13
Denton, TX | They mostly pick places where they don't have to compete with anything but satellite. That started to change in my area when Verizon released FiOS service in Denton, TX and AT&T released it's U-Verse product in Ft. Worth.
Charter dies when a competitor is introduced.
Rarely to I cheer for a company's painful demise... but I hate Charter with a passion. | |
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 RickPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT | I'd be surprised to see them file bankruptcy It's been rumored for 10 years now and never happened and if anything times are better than ever for cable companies in general and charters revenue and customer growth this year is no exception. If anything, the trend away from landlines and dsl will only continue in the coming year..further strengthening their position.
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|  Titus PulloI came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26
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| Re: I'd be surprised to see them file bankruptcy said by Rick:It's been rumored for 10 years now and never happened and if anything times are better than ever for cable companies in general and charters revenue and customer growth this year is no exception. If anything, the trend away from landlines and dsl will only continue in the coming year..further strengthening their position. Ok, ok. Sidestepping the fact that (a) this cableco is more than $20 Billion in debt, and (b) its interest costs are more than double its operating income 
what part of "corporation suckage" are you having the most trouble with - The noun or the verb?
Also, if you could spare a moment, how is it again (play it again, Sam) that a handful of cable companies - minus a few fingers - controlling everything is good? I'm still a bit fuzzy on that bucket of gobshyte.
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|  en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Lets see... the past 10 years (except probably just after 911) has been decent on the economy as a whole.
The past year (and forecast to the end of next year), will be pretty bad.
Almost all companies are taking a hit. Those that are (or were already) deep in debt will most likely file.
I don't see much 'growth' in TV or Phone service, and many that are keeping their service, will likely scale back (i.e. why do I need a 20Mbps Internet package? I can save +$15/month by using a 6Mbps or less).
Cut phone service and go wireless.
TV - OTA should work, or cut back to a lower tier.
I gave TWC their chance - the $89.99/month isn't bad - however, I've had more outages (at least on significant/month) on cable, interrupting Internet, and in some cases, Phone and TV as well.
Next year - when the rate increases hit - its OTA all the way, cellular + Skype for phone, and a toss between DSL or cable for Internet (DSL is more reliable here). | |
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| | | said by Rick:It's been rumored for 10 years now and never happened and if anything times are better than ever for cable companies in general and charters revenue and customer growth this year is no exception. It better be REALLY good because the company's financial statements certainly don't look good.
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 mrchrisOut and aroundPremium
join:2002-10-01
North Babylon, NY | Greed And this is what greed can get a company to.. | |
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Qixotl
join:2002-02-08
New Milford, CT | As expected Charter has been living on NASDAQ's severance lately. Their stock has been below the $1.00 minimum threshold for three months now and closed on Friday at $0.13 a share. Once NASDAQ reinstates the suspended delisting rules, Charter will have to slide down to the OTCBB, making it more likely that the bondholders will push to get pennies on the dollar in a bankruptcy filing. The company has needed to sell off a large chunk of systems for years, but as usual, they have sat on their hands. IMHO, if they were a proactive company instead of a reactive at the last moment one, they would be in decent shape at this point.
»finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:CHTR | |
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join:2000-11-20
Mobile, AL | Mediacom? In the age of mass corporate bankruptcies I'd say that Mediacom filing bankruptcy would be likely as well. | |
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|  IowaManPremium
join:2008-08-21
Grinnell, IA | Re: Mediacom? Nooooooooooo!
but if (maybe when)that Happens Insight Communications would be good or Cox communications any company but comcrap or charter | |
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 WiseOldNerdDe gustibus non est disputandumPremium
join:2001-11-25
Phoenix, AZ
·Charter
·Cox HSI
| Charter Good and Bad I have Charter video and internet in Newport, Oregon and our experience has been interesting and overall better than satisfactory. The local staff are outstanding: friendly, knowledgeable and responsive. The online and telephone people are among the worst in the world. They even make Cox look good.
Internet service has been fast and reliable. Speeds have remained consistent at the high end of the purchased tier. Yes some occasional slowing, but not bigtime or for long.
Video at the basic level is fine. We started with HD but dropped it because quality was poor and offerings were few. It might have been the box they gave us, but when I connected directly to the TV antenna input we were satisfied with quality and the network stations were much better.
If they sell off any parts I hope it isn't us as Comcast, logical purchaser, is such a shitty organization.
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| | Bailout.. Watch Charter try and ask for a bailout, as it seems to be the accepted practice, run a company into the ground and ask
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|  morboComplete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
00000 | Re: Bailout.. said by jfpatrick:Watch Charter try and ask for a bailout, as it seems to be the accepted practice, run a company into the ground and ask for a hand out. hey hey! just because Bank of America and GM are doing it... | |
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join:2001-10-12
Mauldin, SC
·AT&T Southeast
| Ha, not a suprise I've had their service for 10 years and they are without doubt the worst company I have ever had to do business with. They are completely non-responsive to problems, they offer terrible service and they have no customer service whatsoever. Our local government is bombarded with complaints about their service every year.
Their answer is raise their prices every year, while cutting basic services and channels and moving them to a higher tier. | |
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| | Charter I've had Charter cable for years now. It's been reliable and stable and service good to excellent. I don't see how they get into so much trouble all the time. | |
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| | | Re: Charter wow you must be in a Charter area that is good. Not too many of those lol. | |
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 MLouPremium
join:2007-05-01
Madison, WI | Noooo! I love Charter. I have the triple play. My internet has been rock solid for years. When I've had a problem, they send a tech the next day. They won't turn over your personal info to law enforcement without a subpoena. They don't throttle. Doesn't feel like a long wait for upgrades to speed or TV services. Always get a new deal when the old deal is up. The only major problem I've had was when their phone service first came to Madison, WI.
After reading about all the complaints with other providers, I can't stand the thought of using any other company. I refuse to ever deal with ATT (bleep them!) again.
If I had the $, I would buy Charter, streamline the offerings, simplify the billing, and give more power to the engineers.
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| | o well.... i won't mind if charter goes under at all, as long as comcast doesn't take over. all i've gotten out of charter was OK cable service and a steady stream of small gradual price hikes (~$10-15 over 3 years). maybe verizon will gobble up lots of customers where fiber is available, or if puff on the crack pipe long enough, i'll come up with the idea that worcester will get fiber sooner.
i suppose this is why 2+ advertisement notices from charter every month, the bill comes with advertisements, the return envelope has a detachable advertisement and the back of the return envelope is an advertisement. | |
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| | sad Werid, I had their service for 5 years and never had any downside from them. It's been reliable and stable and service good to excellent, I live in Riverside,Ca | |
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| | I soooo want the Central Ca Coast Tired of hearing the tales of woe from Charter subs in the nearby areas . . | |
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Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | Mixed bag Charter is a real mixed bag. IF you can get through all the dead wood, they have some really smart, helpful, and knowledgeable people working for them. But their system is set up in a manner to make it as difficult as possible to get a hold of those people. An easy example of this is that they no longer give out the number of the local offices. 99.9% of the time the front line reps do not know about an outage until after it has been fixed. Fortunately I live in St. Louis (Charter's Corporate home) and rather than seeing me down at the corp offices(again) they have given me a list of people to call. Prior to getting this list, getting a problem fixed (seems to happen about once a year) took about three months, now I can USUALLY get things straightened out in a few of days.
Now all that being said, when it works it works well. They do not cap, throttle, or generally cause me any (day in day out) issues. While I think all ISPs in the US massively overcharge for what they provide, Charter is no worse than the rest. Personally, I hope they do not have to sell out. Mostly becuase I do not want to see a cap come in and our only other choice is ATT (which has all but said that a cap will be in place by mid year). | |
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join:2003-11-25
Appleton, WI
 ·exede by ViaSat
| Not surprised at all... Here is a company that allows its construction managers to run .5 miles of cable from both ends of a short road towards the middle. BOTH cables go past empty fields right up to where the houses start....then BOTH cables END.
Yep, these morons left ALL of the homes in the middle without service, get provided service to several corn fields along the way.
In my opinion, this company deserves to go bankrupt and hopefully PURCHASED by some company who knows how to actually provide service....
Good ridance Charter...don't let the door hit you....
HDMan
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| Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | Re: Not surprised at all... The problem is I cannot think of anybody that has the money, would even consider it, and would be better. Can you? | |
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join:2003-11-25
Appleton, WI Reviews:
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| Re: Not surprised at all... Actually, in this area, Time Warner is doing a great job, but have stayed out of areas that Charter controls. It would be GREAT to see TWC buy the local Charter networks actually.
Either way, Charter needs to die a QUICK death, at least locally here. They suck. | |
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join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | Re: Not surprised at all... With TWC's 5GB-40GB caps you really think it will be an improvement? | |
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join:2003-11-25
Appleton, WI Reviews:
·exede by ViaSat
| Re: Not surprised at all... Let me see.....the best we can get is EVDO...which is about 500 down, 128up. At those speeds, how long would it take to DL 40G??!?!?! You see it all depends on your perspective....I would use about 4GB per month max. We are the average users....so, no, the cap would not bother us... | |
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| | WOW! Neil Smit DOES do pretty well! | |
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| | Charter server I've been a Charter off and on since moving to southern Illinois four years ago. I use both their analog cable and high-speed Internet and I'm usually satisfied. They sometimes have good deals to keep customers (I once paid $68/month for a year for Internet and full digital service with all premium channels).
Their video is very reliable, but their Internet goes out about 3 or 4 times a year, usually on a Friday evening or Saturday morning. It seems like they only have techs on duty during normal business hours since once it goes out, it stays out until Monday morning. When you call their tech support, you get a call center in the Philippines (I think) that simply read from a script and can't really resolve any issues.
I don't believe their service is any better or worse than any other cable company. I would hate to see them be bought out since rates would then increase faster than they already do. | |
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| | charter sucks please god, let them fall. where i live they have a contract with the city to be the only provider in the area and the service works about 50% of the time. | |
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| Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | Re: charter sucks You should be taking this to the city. They usually have much more power (than any individual) to get things straightened out. Feel lucky that your city still has the power to do this. In a lot of states the controlling authority in now at the state level and when this happens you are really screwed.
Before you say goodbye to Charter, think about who will be replacing them. While Charter has it's issues I cannot think of any of the cable companies (that have the money to expand) that I would want to take over my area. Who would you like to see in their place? What area are you in? | |
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| | thats not good All i do is go to work and try to help customers to the best of my ability but charter gives me little resources to help. It seems in house call centers keep all the info away from us? I have no idea why | |
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| any company that buys them out would likely be just as bad I have charter in Northern MN and I love their internet... solid 10meg down no matter what time of the day.
Their HD offerings however suck and when their encoder goes down on a Friday it's not fixed until Monday afternoon (leaving me with 60% fewer HD channels.)
I have all of the premium channels... if I had DirecTV I would get 5 HD channels for Showtime, 2 For HBO, 2 for Cinemax, 4 for Starz, and 2 for TMC (15 HD channels) and with charter I have only 5... one HD channel per premium network. That's horrible in my opinion.
Also, they charge $20 for a DVR... if you want 3 DVR's you pay $60 a month as they give absolutely NO DISCOUNTS. How they are in debt when they charge that much for DVR's is beyond me. | |
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Anybody with Charter in Arkansas, I feel your pain. Comcast please hurry up and buy them out! | |
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